America Pagent Study Guide
Unit Objectives and GLEs:
1. Discuss the reasons Europeans began exploring lands in the Western Hemisphere and discuss the immediate effects this had on the native populations there.
2. Describe the exploration and settlement patterns of the major countries involved and briefly discuss the reasons that each settled the areas in which they did.
3. Understand the preconceptions and expectations the English brought to their initial encounters with the natives in Virginia
4. Examine the different ways in which the colonists and Indians interacted and the underlying tensions in these encounters
5. Explore why English settlers and Native Americans were unable to form a lasting relationship with each other in the Chesapeake region
6. Investigate though primary resources what life was life for early North American colonists
Chapter Readings: (Outline Chapters in Garraty Book)
• Garraty Ch 1-Part of Ch 3 (pg 1-84)
• “1491”
• Readings from John Smith’s Journal
• Articles on Colonial America – Pocahontas, Hutchinson, Equiano, Squanto Movie Clips:
• Scene from Pocahontas – Disney
• Scene from The Lost World
• Last of the Mohicans
• America: The Story of US – “Rebels” Episode
• Other Clips from online resources shown as needed
Key Concepts:
1. Roanoke
2. Virginia Company
3. Jamestown
4. “Starving Time”
5. House of Burgesses
6. Mayflower Compact
7. Powhatan Confederacy
8. Royal Colony
9. Charter Colony
10. Joint-Stock Company
11. Proprietary Colony
12. Puritans
13. Massachusetts Bay Colony
14. Great Migration
15. Plymouth Bay Colony
16. Maryland
17. Connecticut
18. Rhode Island
19. Pequot War
20. Anne Hutchinson
21. Roger Williams
22. Maryland Toleration Act
23. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
24. New Amsterdam, New York
25. New Jersey
26. Carolina
27. King Philip’s War
28. Bacon’ Rebellion
29. Pennsylvania
30. Dominion of New England
31. Glorious Revolution in England
32. Delaware
33. Georgia
34. Harvard College
1. Discuss the reasons Europeans began exploring lands in the Western Hemisphere and discuss the immediate effects this had on the native populations there.
2. Describe the exploration and settlement patterns of the major countries involved and briefly discuss the reasons that each settled the areas in which they did.
3. Understand the preconceptions and expectations the English brought to their initial encounters with the natives in Virginia
4. Examine the different ways in which the colonists and Indians interacted and the underlying tensions in these encounters
5. Explore why English settlers and Native Americans were unable to form a lasting relationship with each other in the Chesapeake region
6. Investigate though primary resources what life was life for early North American colonists
Chapter Readings: (Outline Chapters in Garraty Book)
• Garraty Ch 1-Part of Ch 3 (pg 1-84)
• “1491”
• Readings from John Smith’s Journal
• Articles on Colonial America – Pocahontas, Hutchinson, Equiano, Squanto Movie Clips:
• Scene from Pocahontas – Disney
• Scene from The Lost World
• Last of the Mohicans
• America: The Story of US – “Rebels” Episode
• Other Clips from online resources shown as needed
Key Concepts:
1. Roanoke
2. Virginia Company
3. Jamestown
4. “Starving Time”
5. House of Burgesses
6. Mayflower Compact
7. Powhatan Confederacy
8. Royal Colony
9. Charter Colony
10. Joint-Stock Company
11. Proprietary Colony
12. Puritans
13. Massachusetts Bay Colony
14. Great Migration
15. Plymouth Bay Colony
16. Maryland
17. Connecticut
18. Rhode Island
19. Pequot War
20. Anne Hutchinson
21. Roger Williams
22. Maryland Toleration Act
23. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
24. New Amsterdam, New York
25. New Jersey
26. Carolina
27. King Philip’s War
28. Bacon’ Rebellion
29. Pennsylvania
30. Dominion of New England
31. Glorious Revolution in England
32. Delaware
33. Georgia
34. Harvard College